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by Alexander Fury on 28 February 2010.

This season he was on the hippy trail - and therefore Cavalli was doing soft.

Roberto Cavalli doesn't really do 'trends'. Regardless of what other designers may be thinking or, to use the lingo of the fashion world, 'feeling' Cavalli will always forge his own inimitable path. Its what his very many fans know and love.

This season he was on the hippy trail - and therefore Cavalli was doing soft. His gypsy vibe, however, was miles away from the harsh, dirty reality of itinerant life - think Talitha Getty in layers of couture afghans and you're closer to the world Cavalli was conjuring up. He had a valiant stab at day to open, with floaty harem trousers bound in at the ankle under intricately worked furs or chopped-up and embellished tailoring. Round the neck he slung half-a-dozen artfully distressed peasant scarves, dangling a few dozen fox and racoon tails - more of the same flung in stoles over their shoulders.